Alasdair Hobbs – Employment Law Solicitor

Specialist in Employment

Alasdair has joined us as a former Partner and Head of Employment Department at a leading Midlands Law firm fbc Manby Bowdler.

Alasdair is an employment law expert who specialises in advising companies on law and best practice on employment issues, with a wide range of experience spanning all aspects of Employment law and HR from transactional, strategic and day to day employee relations support.

During his career Alasdair has advised a range of clients from Owner Managed Businesses to National FTSE 100 companies on a range of employment issues including drafting of contracts of employment, policies, consultancy and agency agreements, Directors service agreements, re-structure and re-organisation, transactional corporate support, TUPE consultation including frequent service provision change advice, pre dismissal advice, trade union recognition and industrial relations, discrimination and training services. He has overseen a number of major reorganisation and redundancy projects in a number of different industry sectors , including manufacturing, retail ,leisure, education, food processing, charities and voluntary sector.

Alasdair also has significant experience advising on employment tribunal litigation and advocacy, Board room disputes, negotiation of severance packages, drafting of and enforcement of claims relating to post termination restrictions.

Experience

Alasdair is recommended in the Legal 500 Directory for providing “practical and timely advice”.

Qualified

1993

Qualifications

Post-Graduate Diploma in European Management and European Law

External Roles

Member of the Employment Lawyers Association.

Interests

When not working Alasdair enjoys spending time with his young family, golf, tennis and travel.

Latest Blog Posts

The Equal Pay Act of 1970 gave men and women the right to be paid the same as each other for: • Like work; • Work rated as equivalent by analytical job evaluation study; or • Work of equal value. That was 45 years ago and the legislation was reinforced by the Equality Act in […]

October 2014 has seen key changes to employment law that should now be integrated into the core HR practices for all businesses with employees in the UK. Alasdair Hobbs, an Employer Law Solicitor in the West Midlands, provides a brief account of these changes.